Just wanted to say how much this software and spam fighting tool really Rock and rolls them spams into neat little balls and tosses them into never never land.
I am on my days off and hope to get some type of stats gathering ditty going. But not sure what stats folks want to see. I had some conversations with Chris "The Big Evil One" and he had some ideas. Am just not sure what direction to pursue. I did join the dev list for SA and sort of got talked into checking the docs for SA 3.0 which I'm slowly working on. Just checking them for proper API coverage in the different modules it is using.
So my question to you folks is what sort of statistics would you like to see? Number of rules hit, even if a ham (I always get hungry when talking about ham and spam but I digress) or just total number and the actual rules that are being hit for all spam? And isn't there something already in SA that does these rules and hits? corporra(sic and too lazy to look).
Anyway let me know what you all would like and I can whip something up.
On Friday, April 30, 2004, 3:00:24 AM, Doc Schneider wrote:
Just wanted to say how much this software and spam fighting tool really Rock and rolls them spams into neat little balls and tosses them into never never land.
:-)
I am on my days off and hope to get some type of stats gathering ditty going. But not sure what stats folks want to see. I had some conversations with Chris "The Big Evil One" and he had some ideas. Am just not sure what direction to pursue. I did join the dev list for SA and sort of got talked into checking the docs for SA 3.0 which I'm slowly working on. Just checking them for proper API coverage in the different modules it is using.
So my question to you folks is what sort of statistics would you like to see? Number of rules hit, even if a ham (I always get hungry when talking about ham and spam but I digress) or just total number and the actual rules that are being hit for all spam? And isn't there something already in SA that does these rules and hits? corporra(sic and too lazy to look).
Hi Doc, There's something called a GA, which apparently is run against all SA rules before they are released to see how they perform. I think it's some kind of big spam and ham corpus check, but have not really looked into it further.
Anything we can do to avoid false positives is really important.
Jeff C.
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Doc Schneider writes:
I am on my days off and hope to get some type of stats gathering ditty going. But not sure what stats folks want to see. I had some conversations with Chris "The Big Evil One" and he had some ideas. Am just not sure what direction to pursue. I did join the dev list for SA and sort of got talked into checking the docs for SA 3.0 which I'm slowly working on. Just checking them for proper API coverage in the different modules it is using.
So my question to you folks is what sort of statistics would you like to see? Number of rules hit, even if a ham (I always get hungry when talking about ham and spam but I digress) or just total number and the actual rules that are being hit for all spam? And isn't there something already in SA that does these rules and hits? corporra(sic and too lazy to look).
Hi Doc -- cc'ing sa-dev, since it's really an SpamAssassin thing rather than a SURBL thing ;)
I'm not sure if you mean measuring rule accuracy in advance to pick good scores, or reporting stats after the fact for sysadmins.
For the first one, read:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MassCheck http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HitFrequencies
For the second:
We recently added some additional stats output to spamd in SpamAssassin 3.0.0. This should improve the accessibility of info about rules being used during scanning for tools to summarise.
- --j.
Justin Mason wrote:
Doc Schneider writes:
I am on my days off and hope to get some type of stats gathering ditty going. But not sure what stats folks want to see. I had some conversations with Chris "The Big Evil One" and he had some ideas. Am just not sure what direction to pursue. I did join the dev list for SA and sort of got talked into checking the docs for SA 3.0 which I'm slowly working on. Just checking them for proper API coverage in the different modules it is using.
So my question to you folks is what sort of statistics would you like to see? Number of rules hit, even if a ham (I always get hungry when talking about ham and spam but I digress) or just total number and the actual rules that are being hit for all spam? And isn't there something already in SA that does these rules and hits? corporra(sic and too lazy to look).
Hi Doc -- cc'ing sa-dev, since it's really an SpamAssassin thing rather than a SURBL thing ;)
I'm not sure if you mean measuring rule accuracy in advance to pick good scores, or reporting stats after the fact for sysadmins.
For the first one, read:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MassCheck http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HitFrequencies
For the second:
We recently added some additional stats output to spamd in SpamAssassin 3.0.0. This should improve the accessibility of info about rules being used during scanning for tools to summarise.
Jason,
Thanks for cc-ing this to the dev list. I meant to do that but just got busy writing and totally forgot.
So in SA 3.0 there will be some type of sysadmin stats available? If so I'll just rethink what I was trying to do and focus on other things. 8*)
Does the Masscheck take into account multiple imap mailboxes? From the looks of it it does.
-Doc
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Doc Schneider writes:
We recently added some additional stats output to spamd in SpamAssassin 3.0.0. This should improve the accessibility of info about rules being used during scanning for tools to summarise.
So in SA 3.0 there will be some type of sysadmin stats available? If so I'll just rethink what I was trying to do and focus on other things. 8*)
Well, it just logs them. A script to collate those log lines is still necessary ;)
Does the Masscheck take into account multiple imap mailboxes? From the looks of it it does.
yep, it does.
- --j.
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